Rickard Electric Beck Speedster, Owner'S Manual

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Rickard Electric Special Edition – Owner’s Manual
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For example, let’s say you
drive 12 miles on errands in
the morning and return
home for lunch. Go ahead
and plug it in. That you are
not going to do a “full charge”
means nothing to the
LiFePo4 cells. A 30-minute
recharge is fine. Then return
to errands or whatever after
lunch, when you return
home, plug it in again. You
are not “using up cycles” in
this way, you are actually
extending the life of the cells dramatically.
To prevent overcharging, we have provided a 3kW fixed charger that charges at
a constant current level until the pack reaches a voltage of 126.6. At that
point, it switches to constant voltage mode and holds that voltage at 126.6
until the current required to do so diminishes to a couple of amperes. At that
point it shuts off automatically.
It will NOT come back on later at any point automatically. To restart it, you
would have to remove the power connection and reconnect it to reset the
charger.
The result is that the charging procedure is quite simple, plug a 120vac or 240
vac power source into the provided charging port, and walk away.
The charging port is located on the left side of the car behind the drivers door.
This is really a quite normal
NEMA 5-15 three-prong male
plug. You would connect the
female end of a HEAVY extension
cord into it, and the male end of
that cord of course into an
ordinary wall receptacle.
Your car comes equipped with a
heavy duty 12 gage three
conductor extension cord quite
suitable for charging from 120vac
outlets. Also provided is a heavy